 | 1877 - Liczba stron: 1236
...in the woods in California with a curl of hair driven straight into his heart. She made it a point to be off with, the old love before she was on with the new. I had a consciousness of this all the time, and I didu't respect the girl, and I grew to have in my... | |
 | lady Emma Carolina Wood - 1868 - Liczba stron: 334
...would upbraid her with her perfidy. How could he ? On what grounds could he reproach her ? She had been Off with the old love, Before she was on with the new. In either case she had wanted a husband, and had found the elder brother a greater fool than the younger.... | |
 | William Quarmby - 1870 - Liczba stron: 142
...vmhl. 6he wolf from the wold had been kinder The Evil one's daughter more true ; She was not even " off with the old love, Before she was on with the new." True love decks the world with bright roses, But false love with cypress and yew. Oh happy the wife... | |
 | Katharine Sarah Macquoid - 1876 - Liczba stron: 618
...said Sir Stewart, abruptly. Any allusion to Nellie always annoyed him. " She certainly took no time to be off with the old love before she was on with the new." " Yes. I ought to have said Mrs. Hutchinson. Did you ever see her ? She is very pretty." "How came... | |
 | Mary Bramston - 1878 - Liczba stron: 268
...would have desired. However, at the worst, she comforted herself with the thought that she had been off with the old love before she was on with the new. She would not have been sorry to escape to-day's interview with Miles ; and the wish being father to... | |
 | Saint George (pseud.) - 1880 - Liczba stron: 252
...was given to another — felt it, and trembled, for she knew she was losing ground. She had not been off with the old love, before she was on with the new. Luncheon was soon announced, and a very lively lunch it was. Guy has taken in Lady Langley, and next... | |
 | Clara Quin - 1882 - Liczba stron: 328
...this had distressed her much. Then her brothers had made playful allusions to the necessity of being off with the old love before she was on with the new. Now the vicar had come, and though she had shown him most plainly that she had only thought of him... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1884 - Liczba stron: 490
...more strong-minded and more determined than the general crowd of young ladies. She had thought herself to be off with the old love before she was on with the new. Then the " new " had gone away to Brussels, — or heaven only knows where, — and there seemed to... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - Liczba stron: 706
...visit his own house, she felt it to be her duty to read or burn that note. It was not a case of being off with the old love before she was on with the new, so far as William Henry was concerned, for she had long done with him ; but she was conscious of a... | |
 | James Payn - 1885 - Liczba stron: 324
...visit his own house, she felt it to be her duty to read or burn that note. It was not a case of being off with the old love before she was on with the new, so far as William Henry was concerned, for she had long done with him ; but she was conscious of a... | |
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It has been stretched by another," he said, and those who heard him knew well enough that Rochester was meant. This public humiliation taught Lady Essex that she must be off with the old love before she was on with the new. 
